Faith

Ok, here's a little bit of background info before I jump into this. I've been wondering what I'm going to do with my life recently. And hence, I wrote those last two entries about God's will. But it's coming down to this, I'm out of work, and almost out of money. I'm living with some friends, so I don't have any expenses, but I do have bills to pay. The area that I'm in doesn't have very many job openings. And I've been rejected for a job, that I was well qualified for (I'm in the midst of trying to decide if God's trying to tell me to go somewhere else, or if He's just trying to tell me to wait on Him).
Now we get to the main part. I have faith that God will protect and care for me, comfort and guide me. But, I was reading in James today this passage:

You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe--and shudder! Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"--and he was called a friend of God. You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

Although I have faith in God, that He will open and close doors, and guide me to His perfect will as long as I'm am trusting in Him. I'm at a stand still, this passage literally says that my faith is dead. (and this faith is different from salvation, I believe that there are numerous passages in the Bible that teach that salvation cannot be lost) The analogy that I came up with is this:

I see a bridge, on the other side of the bridge, is, uh, let's say treasure. I really want that treasure, but I just stand at the edge of the bridge, I test it, but I never put my full weight on it. Someone comes up and asks me what I'm doing. I say, I'm looking for a way to get that treasure over there. They look at me funny, and say there's a bridge right here. I say that I know. They say, don't you trust the bridge? I say, of course I do! No doubt! But...I still don't put my weight on the bridge.

Does that sound like faith to you? But that's what I do all the time, I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one. My new goal, is to not only have faith that God will provide for me, but act on it.